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globosis polo uno minute apiculatis, altero plus minus rotundatis, 
8-10 x 7*5, leniter compressis, olivaceo-fuscis. 
Hah . — In fimo canino vetusto, Kew, England, Feb. 1901. 
Species C. crispato, Fckl. simillima, sed setis terminalibus angus- 
tioribus laxius convolutis apice evidentius uncinatis nec non sporis 
minoribus polo uno rotundatis distincta videtur. 
The above species, which appeared on Dogs’ dung after it had been 
kept for some time, much resembles in many characters C. crispatum , 
Fckl. A close examination, however, shows the existence of several 
slight, but apparently constant, differences, so that it seems impossible 
to consider the present plant as belonging to that species. In the 
first place, the terminal hairs on the perithecium of C. crispatum are 
slightly thicker, and more closely coiled at shorter intervals almost up 
to their apex (see Fig. 10); in the present species the narrower hairs 
are less closely wound, and terminate in a more evident uncinate 
or circinate apex (see Fig. 9). In C. crispatum , also, the spores are 
apiculate at both ends, and measure, in the example in Fckl. Fung. 
Rhen. nr. 2022, where they are greenish and immature, 12x10^. 
In C. simile the spores are decidedly smaller, 8-10 x 7-5 /*, and are 
apiculate at one end only, the other being rounded. 
C. bostrychoides, Zopf (Figs. 6, 7). 
C. bostrychoides , Zopf, in Sitzungsber. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xix, 173 
(1877); Zopf, Entw. d. Chaet. 81, t 7, f. 14-28 (1881); Sacc. Syll. 
Fung, i, 224 (1882); Zopf and Syd., Myc. March, nr. 43 (fig.); Wint. 
in Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. Deutschl. Bd. i, Abth. ii, 155 (1887); Schroet. 
in Cohn’s Krypt.-Fl. Schles. Bd. iii, Halfte 2, 283 (1894). 
Perithecia scattered or subgregarious, oval or elliptical, -|~i mill, 
high, with numerous crowded mostly spirally wound terminal hairs, 
which are fuscous and many septate, and often become very rough, 
lateral hairs spreading, simple, straight ; asci clavate, shortly pedicellate, 
# 8-spored, 40-50 x 12-15 ^ very evanescent; spores biseriate in the 
ascus, subglobose, minutely apiculate at each end, 6-7-5 X 5 /*, 
olivaceous, becoming fuliginous. 
Hab . — On the dung of Giraffe ( Camelopardalis giraffa) and Burrhel 
Wild Sheep (Ovis burrhel ), Kew, Mar. 1901 ; on Mouse-dung, Kew, 
April, 1901. (Distrib. — Germany; on dung (Goats’, &c.), and on 
rotting animal and vegetable substances.) 
A fine species, easily known by the appendages wound in a cork- 
screw-like manner, and the small spores. It occurred very sparingly 
